Pick 5 Slate – Rules

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2026 Season
Join Pick 5 Slate

Pool Type/Format
– Pick 5 games each week from College and/or NFL games played Wednesday through Monday
– College Conferences on the Picksheet: SEC, Big Ten, ACC, Big 12, Pac 12, American, Mountain West, Sun Belt, FBS Independents. AP Top 25 also included on the Picksheet independent of Conference.
– Point Spreads In Use
– You must win all 5 of your picks to win a week
– If there is no winner for a given week, the pool will rollover to the following week(s) until a winner(s) is declared 

Fees
Entry Fee: $10 per Week or $180 for the Season. 
– Email djacksports1@gmail.com for payment information (Venmo, Zelle, PayPal, and Apple Pay).
– The entry fee deadline is 12:00 pm MT (Noon) on Saturdays
– Maximum of 3 entries allowed per player account.
– Paying in increments during the season is an option.

Schedule
– The pool runs from NFL Week 1 through NFL Week 18

Weekly Deadline
– Picksheet Deadline: 11:00 am MT on Sundays

Point Spreads
– The point spreads are updated and locked by Splash Sports on Tuesday, 11 am Mountain Time each week

Buy-Back Rule
– Players can buy-back missed weeks on a rollover week
– Players will receive an 0-5 record for the weeks missed

Payouts
The pool is broken into the following payouts:
Weekly Winners
1st: 100% of the entry fees minus the administrative fee 

Administrative Fee
– Administrative Fee: $0.50 per week per player
– The administrative fee goes toward the cost for running the pools

Final Week of the Season
– If there is no declared winner(s) for the final week of the season, the top 3 players based on Season Win-Loss-Tie (W-L-T) record will determine the winners and be paid out as follows minus the administrative fee:
1st: 50%
2nd: 30%
3rd: 20%

Tiebreakers – Weekly
– No tiebreaker

Tiebreakers – Season (as applicable)
1. Wins
2. Winning Percentage
– Ties against the point spread are tracked in the W-L-T column and will count as a half win (1/2) when calculated in the season tiebreaker of Winning Percentage

Revision History
2026 Changes Identified in Red:
– Listed College Conferences included on the Picksheet
– Moved the payment deadline to 12:00 pm MT (Noon) on Saturdays
– Maximum of 3 entries per player account
– Clarification updates